If D10K Bug Is Kin to Doomsday Y2K,
Forget Stockpiling Your Groceries

It will be nine more months before we know how computers survive the Y2K problem, but they got through D10K just fine Tuesday.

A minor fuss erupted a year ago as some consultants warned of glitches on the day when computers would try to read a five-digit Dow Jones Industrial Average. Tuesday, however, there was little sign of that as the Dow crossed 10000 for the first time, before falling back well before the close.